There is a deep divide with the past. The common theme is that concentrations of power – in banking, the media, the police or politics – must be held to account

The Metropolitan Police put no allegations to Rebekah Brooks during nine hours of interviews, her solicitor said today as he described the decision to arrest her as causing "enormous reputational damage".

Police officers discovered around one million indecent images of children at a house in east London, Scotland Yard has revealed.

The Metropolitan police will examine allegations that the News of the World paid policemen to track down targets using a method called "pinging", which involves bouncing a person's mobile phone signal from relay towers to locate their exact whereabouts. It is a tactic typically used by police or the intelligence services, with the help of network providers, to hunt dangerous criminals and terrorists and requires top-level clearance on a case-by-case basis.

Emergency legislation to reverse a legal ruling that has thrown the police bail system into chaos completed its Lords stages in less than two hours and awaits Royal Assent later tonight to become law.

Here are the details of the fees that universities and colleges in England are planning to charge next year (2012/13).

Gordon Brown will today break his silence over the News International scandal by accusing Rupert Murdoch's organisation of targeting his personal information, The Independent has learnt.

Universities will finally learn tomorrow whether they are allowed to charge students the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fee from September 2012.

News International and the Metropolitan Police are looking into corruption at Wapping. But face-saving is their priority

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The slew of revelations about fresh potential victims of hacking continued yesterday, with the latest names to emerge those of families of soldiers killed in Iraq.

More than 4,000 potential phone hacking victims have been highlighted by Scotland Yard, detectives leading the investigation said.

A massive dust storm descended on the Phoenix area in Arizona, drastically reducing visibility and delaying flights as strong winds uprooted trees and left thousands of residents without power.

This was not only a disgusting intrusion – it interfered with an urgent police investigation